{"id":6410,"date":"2012-02-21T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:17:30","slug":"doctor-who-the-two-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/02\/doctor-who-the-two-doctors.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who: The Two Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0001GF24W\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0001GF24W\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B0001GF24W&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"160\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0001GF24W\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">Having had \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005SH664E\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005SH664E\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Three Doctors<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005SH664E\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0017XOFGE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0017XOFGE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Five Doctors<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0017XOFGE\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">,\u201d the next offering of a story in which the Doctor meets himself in a previous regeneration is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0001GF24W\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0001GF24W\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Two Doctors<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0001GF24W\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">.\u201d Patrick Troughton is the only Doctor who appeared in all of them, and to good effect, since he is certainly one of the most entertaining of the Doctors. It is a pity that even in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0017XOFGE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0017XOFGE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Five Doctors<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0017XOFGE\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u201d they didn\u2019t manage an appearance by Tom Baker. It would have been great to see him meet up with any of the others \u2013 and it still would!<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0001GF24W\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0001GF24W\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Two Doctors<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0001GF24W\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u201d the story actually begins with Patrick Troughton\u2019s Doctor and his companion Jamie, and only brings Colin Baker\u2019s Doctor into the story slightly later. The Second Doctor has been unofficially sent by the time lords to pay a visit to his friend Dastari on a space station, in order to get some dangerous experiments in time travel to stop. In fact, the Sontarans and other parties are working to get possession of time travel technology for their various ends. The Second Doctor ends up getting kidnapped as part of the attempt to get the technology to work, since it requires a time lord\u2019s special biological imprint to function safely. <a href=\"http:\/\/wilybadger.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/08\/the-worst-of-doctor-who-the-two-doctors\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">(For the manner in which the Doctor as the agent of the time lords has been explained in relation to the earlier story, see the post linked to from here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chakoteya.net\/DoctorWho\/22-4.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The episode has some wonderful bits of dialogue. One of my favorites occurs very early on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rdwf.org.uk\/images\/etal\/2doctors\/chesenne3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"190\">DASTARI: Well, Doctor, what did you make of our chatelaine?<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: Was she an Androgum?<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: She was. Now she\u2019s an Androgum TA. Technologically augmented.<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: Oh, one of your biological experiments.<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: I\u2019ve carried out nine augmentations on Chessene. She\u2019s at mega-genius level now. I\u2019m very proud of her.<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: Proud of her, or your own skill?<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: Perhaps a little of both, but all that Androgum energy is now functioning on a higher plane. She spends days in the databanks simply sucking in knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: She\u2019s still an Androgum. You can\u2019t change nature.<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdwf.org.uk\/etal\/6th\/6chessene.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chessene\u2019s<\/a> case, I believe I have.<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: That\u2019s dangerous ground, Dastari. You give a monkey control of its environment, it\u2019ll fill the world with bananas.<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: Oh really, Doctor. I expected something more progressive from you. Don\u2019t you understand the tremendous implications of my work?<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: Yes, that\u2019s why I say it\u2019s so dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: Doctor, our races have become tired and effete. Our seed is thin. We must hand the baton of progress to others. If I can raise the Androgums to a higher plane of consciousness, there\u2019s no limit to what that boiling energy might achieve.<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: Dastari, I have no doubt you could augment an earwig to the point where it understood nuclear physics, but it\u2019d still be a very stupid thing to do!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are several tropes which are familiar from sci-fi in general and Doctor Who in particular, including the idea of augmenting organisms to exceed their natural capacities. But there is also a rather disturbing hint of a familiar colonialist trope as well \u2013 the idea of the savage whom one may educate, but who can never truly be civilized. That the language of \u201csavages\u201d and \u201ccivilized\u201d occurs later in the episode reinforces the presence of this motif (see the quote below), which is disappointing. That the base, savage Androgums seem patterned on the Scots is all the more troubling, and surprising, given the presence of Jamie as a hero.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wilybadger.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/andro-doc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\">The motif also runs in reverse (as often in colonialist material, which often feared the possibility of enticement or corruption of the \u201ccivilized\u201d by attractive elements in the \u201cprimitive\u201d culture). The Doctor receives genetic treatment seeking to turn him into an Androgum.<\/p>\n<p>The story also recalls My Fair Lady\/Pygmalion, with sci-fi twists and reversals, once the possibility of the Doctor being turned into Chessene\u2019s consort is envisaged. She had been made less Androgum in the process of augmentation, in her appearance as well as in her thinking, and was often ambivalent about her status and her relationship to her kin. Again, many of these are familiar motifs (seen recently in Avatar as well).<\/p>\n<p>Religion features explicitly in a few places. The most visible (and hardest to interpret) is the piety of the old, blind Spanish woman, Do\u00f1a Arana,\u00a0who kneels and prays before a statue of the Virgin Mary, makes the sign of the cross, and soon after getting up is killed, Chessene, the Sontarans and the rest of them occupying her home. It is unclear what the significance of this is, other than to contrast the woman\u2019s vain reliance on the Madonna or God, who fails to protect her from the augmented alien \u201cgoddess\u201d who pays her a visit. The Doctor is at his least godlike in this episode, even though present twice over \u2013 he is fallible, susceptible to being genetically altered, and at one point Colin Baker\u2019s Doctor once again doesn\u2019t refrain from killing someone in self defense.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a reference on Dastari\u2019s part, and later on Chessene\u2019s, to her being elevated to among the gods. Here is one example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DASTARI: I shall put her among the gods. There need be no limit to her achievements.<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: There\u2019ll be no limit to her capacity for evil. She\u2019s an Androgum, Dastari, whatever you may say! She\u2019ll snap off the hand that feeds her whenever she feels hungry.<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: You don\u2019t know Chessene. I confess I was sad that the Time Lords chose to send you as their emissary, because I\u2019ve always had a certain regard for you, Doctor, personally, and the operation will, by necessity, be very painful. But<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: It\u2019ll hurt you more than it hurts me.<\/p>\n<p>DASTARI: What gives you that idea? No, I was going to say but at least you\u2019ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you have been part of a great undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>(Dastari leaves.)<\/p>\n<p>DOCTOR 2: You are an irresponsible old fool! The Androgums are barbarians! Release them into time and every civilised people in the galaxy will curse your name!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another important bit of dialogue, which gives insight into the culture of the Androgums, involves a conversation between Chessene and the other main Androgum character in the episode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHESSENE: You think of nothing but your stomach, do you, Shockeye.<\/p>\n<p>SHOCKEYE: The gratification of pleasure is the sole motive of action. Is that not our law?<\/p>\n<p>CHESSENE: I still accept it, but there are pleasures other than the purely sensual.<\/p>\n<p>SHOCKEYE: For you, perhaps. Fortunately, I have not been augmented.<\/p>\n<p>CHESSENE: Take care. Your purity could easily become insufferable.<\/p>\n<p>SHOCKEYE: These days, you no longer use your karam name, do you, Chessene o\u2019 the Franzine Grig?<\/p>\n<p>CHESSENE: Do you think for one moment that I forget that I bear the sacred blood of the Franzine Grig? But that noble history lies behind me, while ahead? Oh, ahead lies a vision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20110727190010\/tardis\/images\/thumb\/0\/0b\/In_Spain.jpg\/250px-In_Spain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"196\">While it might lead to criticism of the plausibility of this imaginary race, the episode can serve as a useful starting point for discussion \u2013 in particular, of whether any group has ever or could ever achieve dominance and power while focusing on satisfying only our baser instincts.<\/p>\n<p>Shockeye actually mentions the old woman\u2019s religion previously referred to \u2013 but only to say that he doesn\u2019t care about the religion of \u201cprimitives\u201d \u2013 only what they taste like.<\/p>\n<p>The Androgum characters thus also introduce the issue of perspective: from what perspective, if any, can different cultures in fact be judged \u201cprimitive\u201d or \u201csuperior\u201d? To a culture that regards hedonistic satisfaction of pleasure as the highest and most worthy end, a culture that failed to pursue or attain that end might seem \u201cprimitive.\u201d And so, we are forced to remember, might we, when viewed from the perspective of another culture \u2013 alien or terrestrial.<\/p>\n<p>This episode of Doctor Who serves as a reminder that, even as it is sometimes dramatic and even scary, Doctor Who has consistently and persistently ventured into <em>comedy<\/em> as well. Some elements are not intelligible except in the way that things are on comedies \u2013 just realistic enough to work, but clearly contrived to make us laugh. When Doctor Who enters this territory, it usually does so effectively. But even the comical elements often serve to make or bolster a provocative point. So too in this episode, for instance when Shockeye is \u201ctenderizing\u201d Jamie while he is still alive, and he reassures Dastari that he needn\u2019t worry that it hurts, since \u201cPrimitive creatures don\u2019t feel pain in the way that we would.\u201d Here too, the fact that primitiveness is a matter of perspective, and thus we should think twice before inflicting pain that we would not wish inflicted on us by those who view us as we view animals. This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered aliens who said that humans are like animals in some sense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/02\/doctor-who-the-faceless-ones.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">(it comes up in \u201cThe Faceless Ones\u201d which I recently blogged about)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly cannot remember whether I had seen this episode before when I was younger \u2013 there are definitely some from several of the Doctors\u2019 tenures that I missed. But either way, I certainly enjoyed it now. Have you seen this episode? If so, what did you think of it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had \u201cThe Three Doctors\u201d and \u201cThe Five Doctors,\u201d the next offering of a story in which the Doctor meets himself in a previous regeneration is \u201cThe Two Doctors.\u201d Patrick Troughton is the only Doctor who appeared in all of them, and to good effect, since he is certainly one of the most entertaining of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,17,42,61,80,86,96],"tags":[614,1912,1914,2006,2022,8805,10813,11592],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-education","category-humor","category-morality","category-religion","category-science-fiction","category-technology","tag-androgum","tag-civilization","tag-civilized","tag-colin-baker","tag-colonialism","tag-patrick-troughton","tag-savage","tag-sontarans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doctor Who: The Two Doctors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Having had &quot;The Three Doctors&quot; and &quot;The Five Doctors,&quot; the next offering of a story in which the Doctor meets himself in a previous regeneration is &quot;The\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/02\/doctor-who-the-two-doctors.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor Who: The Two Doctors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Having had &quot;The Three Doctors&quot; and &quot;The Five Doctors,&quot; the next offering of a story in which the Doctor meets himself in a previous regeneration is &quot;The\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/02\/doctor-who-the-two-doctors.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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